Imaam al-Shaafi’i Rahimahullaah said: ‘There is nobody except that he has someone who loves him and someone who hates him. So if that’s the case, let a person be with the people who are obedient to Allaah `Azza Wa Jall.’

I remember some people discussing this....they talked about ya know when people say (usually oldies) summat like 'this time is like this,or this generation...theres many burglaries' (as an example)...to say it like that....in reality its not the the actual 'time' but the people...if that makes sense....

Give me a second to finish viewing the other new threads, then i'll be back to answer your question In-Shaa Allaah.

In the meantime if you read this post then can you bump that walaa wal baraa thread you made?

_________________“There is no worse calamity for knowledge and its people than when outsiders intrude. They are ignorant, but presume to know. They cause trouble yet think that they are helping.” - Imam Ibn Hazm Rahimahullah

That hadeeth has many narrations with lots of different wordings, it explains itself in another narration by saying: "I alternate the night and the day".

What it means is that do not swear time*, because it is only a creation of Allaah and can do nothing of its own accord, so when you swear it then you are actually swearing Allaah because it is Allaah who is causing that thing to happen.

When any calamity like death or loss of wealth etc used to befall the mushrikeen they used to say: "Yaa khaybatad dahr", which means something like "Oh useless time!"

So Rasoolullaah Sallallaahu 'Alayhi wa sallam said in this hadeeth not to swear time, because by doing so you are swearing Allaah who is the actual One that is controlling the time.

_________________“There is no worse calamity for knowledge and its people than when outsiders intrude. They are ignorant, but presume to know. They cause trouble yet think that they are helping.” - Imam Ibn Hazm Rahimahullah

_________________“There is no worse calamity for knowledge and its people than when outsiders intrude. They are ignorant, but presume to know. They cause trouble yet think that they are helping.” - Imam Ibn Hazm Rahimahullah